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LAMINITIS. 
condition of the tissues from impaired nutrition. The circu¬ 
lation being impeded congestion takes place and produces 
laminitis, or lays the foundation of navicular disease. 
Mr. Fleming has stated “ that in laminitis the sole and 
frog are scarcely, if at all, implicated.” That theory is incor¬ 
rect ; in laminitis the whole venous circulation of the foot is 
congested, or inflamed, according to the stage of the disease, 
in proof of which see how quickly death and separation of 
the horny sole and frog takes place in cases which do not go 
on well. 
In bringing this controversy to a close, as far as I am 
concerned, 1 beg to state that, if I had had any doubt of the 
correctness of the theory I have advanced, that doubt would 
have been entirely removed by the number of letters I have 
received, and the opinions I have heard expressed by mem¬ 
bers of the profession. At the same time I may be permitted 
to state that, in my opinion, it would not be to the interest of 
the profession if every practical man, who wished to record 
the result of his experience, had to refute such a persistence 
of sophistry as I have had. 
LAIMINITIS. 
By J. M. Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Bristol. 
The discussion upon the subject of laminitis has been 
carried on for a considerable time. For some weeks past I 
have been contemplating writing you a few particulars of 
cases which I have had under my care, but there are two 
reasons why I have not yet communicated them to you: 1st, 
I wished to read all the elaborate theories of our friend 
Mr. Fleming, of the Engineers; 2nd, I was determined 
to carefully watch the result of the last two cases which I 
have lately liad under treatment. Now, Sir, I am fully con¬ 
vinced that my father’s system of treating laminitis is most 
successful. Mr. Fleming thinks the readers of the Veteri¬ 
narian must be getting tired of the subject of the treatment 
of laminitis. The only thing, I imagine, they are tired of is 
his wondering theories, of which he attempts to argue down 
every fact which no man of experience among horses for a 
moment doubts. 
“ Heavy shoes,” says our friend Mr. Fleming, “ are a 
source of injury to feet and limbs, and a waste of power.” 
For some }ears 1 have had a large shoeing practice in 
the heart ot Bristol, where diseases of the feet are more 
